IARIA initiates a series of on-line journals specially dedicated to promote outstanding papers presented in IARIA conferences. The journals will consider to invite extended version of papers that either have been awarded or got a very high ranking during the review process.

There are no publication fees.

Each journal has an Editor-in-Chief, an Editorial Advisory Board, and Editorial Board; special issues may have Guest Editors, selected from the Editorial Board by the Editor-in-Chief and the Journal Board Chairs. The Editorial Board is selected among the conference committee members. As publication is by invitation only, the invitation letter will provide the instructions for submission, which is intended to be similar to the conference submission procedure.

Journals

The following journals are launched in this first phase; they are covering the topics specific to the IARIA conferences listed along with the journal title.

Only papers accepted to a IARIA conference can receive an invitation for submission. Minimum 10 pages and maximum 25 pages are expected, following the same format used for the camera-ready paper submitted to the conferences. Reference to the original paper published in a conference is mandatory.

Selected authors will receive an invitation for submitting an extended version; only papers that will be submitted in an extended form and clearly presenting an enhanced version will be considered. A new review round will be performed, under the control of the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board. The review process is using an on-line tool.

All the published volumes/numbers will be openly accessible from the IARIA site. There is no limit of numbers/volumes per year; the Journal Board wishes
to provide a very short publication window, providing the quality of the submissions exceeds a given threshold.

The journals have an ISSN number and page number.

It is the intention to have all the journals indexed by the major indexes, including SCI(E).
Your cross-reference to the papers published in these journals is important in establishing the reference index to enter the major indexes.

How to Submit

Submissions to the journals is by invitation only. All invitations sent out contain a link to the submission site.

The general timeline schedule intended for publishing is the following:

Invitation

Acceptance notification and comments: after 2 months

Final camera ready submitted to the editors: after 2 weeks.

On-line publication: after 2/3 weeks.

Submission rules

It is important that the principles of copyright and plagiarism are entirely observed by the authors. An invited paper may not be published for the journal if the extension is not satisfactory and the new form is not at the expected standard of quality. Conditions for an extended version of a published papers are presented below.

In editing a new journal paper based on a conference paper, please consider the following:

The new paper must have at least 30-40% new contents, so minimum 10-12 pages (on a basis of 6 page conference paper)

The new paper can go beyond 25 pages

The page should be Letter size

The new paper can incorporate unpublished information related to the original content

The new paper must incorporate detailed results, detailed literature reviews, or expanded experiments

The new material must be in line with the original topic

The title must reflect the new content

The authorship may also be expanded, to reflect the new contributions

The abstract must be a new one, as new items were added

The Keywords must be updated accordingly

The Conclusion must be updated to capture the new content

When inserting new paragraphs or sections, a bridge text is needed to ensure the continuity of the ideas

New figures and new and/or enhanced experiments are mandatory

Enriching the figures from the original publication is also suitable and recommended